about duckduckgo
recently, every damn time I go on this page, I can't even do more than one search in their search engine, without them having some form of captcha coming up... unless I type it into the search bar on the top of my browser next to where you put the url.
They have become aholes in this way. I recommend people use searx instances instead if they don't want to tear their hair out due to duckduckgo's anti-scrapper policies.
Unless you can get them to knock it off of course by complaining.
Doesn't do that to me. DDG is one of the best search engines for not giving me captchas. Wonder how we are different in that regard, there must be something different about the signal DDG gets from each of us? Brave search, on the other hand, has been very busy with the captchas.
I checked waterfox after and rather annoyingly I found out they are checking the web browser in some way.
Which sadly means, they will discriminate against niche web browsers...
wonderful... so they are bullying people to use modern web browsers... sigh.
Whoever came up with user agent sniffing should be arrested and whomever supports that idea should be too.